Bishop Michel Poncet de la Rivière †

Deceased

Bishop of Angers, France

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Jul 1671		Born
1696²	24.4	Ordained Priest	Priest
3 Apr 1706	34.7	Selected	Bishop of Angers, France
7 Jun 1706	34.9	Confirmed	Bishop of Angers, France
1 Aug 1706	35.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Angers, France
2 Aug 1730	59.0	Died	Bishop of Angers, France

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Michel Poncet de la Rivière
Bishop Michel Poncet de la Rivière
(born 11 Jul 1671, died 2 Aug 1730)
Bishop of Angers

Event Place
Birth Place Paris, Archdiocese of Paris

a priest for 34.5 years
a bishop for 24.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Louis-Antoine Cardinal de Noailles †
Archbishop of Paris
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop François Bouthillier de Chavigny †
Bishop Emeritus of Troyes
Bishop Jacques-Antoine Phélypeaux †
Bishop of Lodève

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Louis-Antoine Cardinal de Noailles † (1679)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop François de Harlay de Champvallon † (1651)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Nicolò Guidi di Bagno † (1644)
Titular Archbishop of Athenae
Antonio (Marcello) Cardinal Barberini (Sr.), O.F.M. Cap. † (1625)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Bishop Laudivio Zacchia † (1605)
Bishop of Corneto (Tarquinia) e Montefiascone
Pietro Cardinal Aldobrandini † (1604)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Clement VIII (1592)
(Ippolito Aldobrandini (Sr.) †)
Alfonso Cardinal Gesualdo di Conza (Gonza) † (1564)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Francesco Cardinal Pisani † (1527)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Alessandro Cardinal Farnese † (1519)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Leo X (1513)
(Giovanni de’ Medici †)
Raffaele Cardinal Sansoni Riario † (1504)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Julius II (1481)
(Giuliano della Rovere †)
Pope Sixtus IV (1471)
(Francesco della Rovere, O.F.M. †)
Guillaume Cardinal d’Estouteville, O.S.B. †
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Pierre-Guillaume de La Vieuxville † (1728)
Bishop Jacques-Charles-Alexandre Lallemant † (1729)
Bishop François de Lastic de Saint-Jal † (1729)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 59158867
WikiData: Q588696

Source(s):

b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 5, Page 84
b/c2+: CB, 21 Dec 2013
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1706, Number 10

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